[WINDOWS]Should the Empire strike back?

Microsoft still has yet to show off the fruits of the $300 million plus it spent to create a new consumer-focused ad campaign designed to make Windows Vista and Microsoft в??cool.в?? But in the interim, some bloggers are weighing in with advice for the Redmondians that runs contrary to what some Microsoft backers had been advocating Microsoft do to в??take backв?? the operating-system conversation from Apple.

Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle had a good post yesterday, entitled в??Memo to Microsoft: Donв??t Be Cool.в?? In it, Silverman links a post from Michael Mace, a principal with Rubicon Consulting and в?? back in the 1987-1997 period в?? a marketing director with Apple.